Premier pushing for national holiday for 250-year anniversary of freedom in EE/LL
The Premier made this statement during the opening ceremony of the East End/Long Look Festival, which took place at Greenland Field on Tuesday, August 5, 2025.
He said momentum is already being built for the 250th anniversary of freedom in East End/Long Look.
“Several of us on stage have descent from those 25 individuals who were manumitted, I believe on June 30th 1776, and we will not allow 250 years to come and go without having a grand grand celebration.’’
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The Premier posited it will be a wonderful celebration, inclusive of a national holiday.
“In fact, I have instructed my Permanent Secretary and, of course, we are going to bring it to the Cabinet that we are going to call a holiday.
“We are going to have a national holiday to acknowledge 250 years of freedom in East End/Long Look. This wasn’t a freedom for only East End/Long Look people, this is a freedom that extended to everybody in the community, seeing that the freedom that we had sincerely was infectious in the community and help to agitate further freedom, which would later come in 1834 August 1st, so we're going to have a grand celebration.’’
The Premier called on Virgin Islanders to participate in the events.
“So, the most important factor in all of this is we, the people of this community and the Virgin Islands, participating in this event because this is our event and nobody can celebrate it for us,’’
He further stated that, ‘’we have to celebrate it for ourselves it belongs to us, we have to come out and we have to celebrate it, let stop the spirit of complaining, let’s have a spirit of involvement, a spirit of participation and a spirit of pride in what our ancestors and our foreparents did to have us here.’’
The East End/Long Look Emancipation Festival is being held in honour of William W. Penn.
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18 Responses to “Premier pushing for national holiday for 250-year anniversary of freedom in EE/LL”
also like to commend the East End festival committee for job well done in reviving the East End festival.
We had a good day at beach on Sunday.
The games and tug a war and boat racing which I suspect will be high next year.
Then the Tuesday night was also good in the village and then the J’ouvert on Wednesday morning was excellent.
Then come the parade with saw a lot of improvement with 21 entries.
Congratulations again to the committee.
Start planning for next year. No place for negativity.
I suspect, in my honest opinion that this is just a other flattery distraction from the main priority needs, and challenges, that need urgent attention.
We don't need another holiday, but we surely do need our rundown sewer problems, water shortage problems, traffic roads problems, direlect vehicle clean-up problems, youths problems, immigration problems, continuing misuse of our tax dollars problem, electrical problems, high crimes problems, Jezebel style behavior problems, medical problems, political problems, cash-in-hand shortage problems, dictatorship problems, racial division problems, others social problems fix as soon as possible.